Listen. I am absolutely certain that Black people feel the effects of being a minority in a White country just like a White person would in a Black country. It isn't surprising and it isn't about race.
On top of the normal bias that a majority has towards itself, there is the issue with crime statistics for Black youths. It is very disproportionate to their numbers.
If you are looking for prejudice you might find prejudice towards cultures that promote gun and knife crime, muggings and always blame someone else for it all, but you won't find much towards skin colour in Britain. That kind of thinking is for a tiny majority of knuckleheads.

Personally I loathe irrational hatred of other people but having been born and raised in South London I know exactly where mistrust and cynicism about Black culture come from. It is not about irrational prejudice.

Do you seriously believe that this outburst of Black discontent is proportionate to racism in the country?

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (06 Jun 2020 10.58am)

So there should be mistrust of the whole of black culture by the actions of some, there is knife crime for sure there are other issues that we could debate for sure but if people have a mis trust of the whole of black culture based on the actions of some that is why people are marching.

I find it a bit ironic your dancing on a pin analogy you have used so often.

I think the negative view might be on angry young black people to be precise. The gobby girls having a go at a policeman for saying all lives matter or young soldiers cleaning a war memorial from graffiti too early and getting their faces all over social media. Most people take people as they find them based on their character and attitude. You might even get some people getting a bit tired that the most important thing to an individual is their skin colour, when the person making the decision hasn’t the time or the same level of interest or involvement in it with however many things going on in their life and work. That’s just a guess but I can imagine a lot will get a bit tired of it or something they’d rather not get involved in because of PC today.

I’m personally more interested in how someone sounds in work than their skin tone. The thing I can’t understand is why some articulate young BAME people, including in politics in the media fail or won’t pronounce their T’s, or even just drop the inner London Street accent.

There’s the Asian Labour Party activist who cannot ever pronounce a T when saying The Labour Party and there was an articulate young black lady hosting LBC this week. She rang in and made good points to Iain Dale, but then somehow started to get angry with Iain on things he won’t be guilty of put of nowhere. Credit to Iain’s calmness as always.

Next evening Iain had her co-host a phone in. They must have refused white callers to prevent any heated arguments and stuck to airing issues. Some good points on black history in education, lack of black people in official institutional bodies and things. But I couldn’t understand why she couldn’t pronounce a ‘T’ again.

COYP

This seems very worrying...No different view allowed and therefore no debate. The one question I would ask is does anyone think that the lives of black people would be any better outside of the Western World, where so many of their troubles are? Are they be better treated in the Far East? In other words is this purely a white verses black thing? I would honestly like to know if black people suffer as much hurt in other parts of the World. Please keep this debate civil.

hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing.

All I read on this forum is emotive language and dancing on a pin is pretty accurate when you don't give a yes or no answer to a yes or no question.